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{{Infobox place|name=Iceverf|kind=County|region=[[Velfald Regency|Velfald]] Regency|ruler=[[Astrid Frostweave|Lady Astrid Frostweave]]|population=~100,000|climate=Cold and snowy|tier=gm|src=heralds-a#3}}
{{Map link|Iceverf|province}}

'''Iceverf''' is a county of the [[Velfald Regency|Velfald]] Regency in the [[Aenarch Empire]], and also the name of its chief city. {{Src|heralds-b#144|last-winter#21}} It is not under siege, but it is rotted from within, worked by the secret society [[Blackice]] and burdened by political and mystic threats. {{Src|heralds-a#3|heralds-a#4}}

== Overview ==
Iceverf lies in a cold, snowy region and is one of the setting's largest established cities, with a population of roughly 100,000. {{Src|heralds-b#164|last-winter#325}} Its count also governs the nearby town of [[Sunbell]], and an important road runs from Iceverf to the capital of the Velfald Regency. {{Src|last-winter#21}} The city is older than [[Minor Places#Rosewatch Spire|Rosewatch Spire]] and known for guards so devoted to order that they stand apart from most of the region's other troubles; their captain is [[Captain Thorsen]]. {{Src|heralds-a#29|heralds-a#31}} Sewer and cellar passages beneath the streets connect the living city to the ruins of [[Old Iceverf]] below. {{Src|heralds-b#444}}

{{Unresolved|Whether Iceverf is formally a county or a duchy|last-winter#21|heralds-b#187}}

== History ==
Iceverf's late count set out on the road after a summons from Altia and died along the way; the noble council's refusal to risk an open-field war against the [[Winter Elves]] left the county's defenders penned inside the walls, and the harsh winter made travel unsafe for anyone. {{Src|heralds-b#166}} With the count gone, his daughter took over the day-to-day running of the county amid the resulting instability. {{Src|heralds-b#148}} Iceverf's current ruler is Countess [[Astrid Frostweave]] of [[House Frostweave]], who inherited the title from her predecessor. {{Src|last-winter#99}}

{{Unresolved|Whether the count who died travelling to Altia is the same predecessor Astrid Frostweave inherited the county from|heralds-b#166|last-winter#99}}

The war has cost Iceverf ground: the Winter Elves have seized, or are trying to seize, the county, counted alongside neighbouring [[Swanhall]] among the war's losses. {{Src|heralds-b#178|heralds-b#182|heralds-b#186}} Iceverf is also the home ground of the ancient knighthood of the [[Antler Knights]]. {{Src|last-winter#45}}

== Power and politics ==
Beneath its intact walls, Iceverf is hollowed out by the secret society [[Blackice]], whose hidden den lies underneath the city near [[Graymond]]. {{Src|heralds-b#348|heralds-b#359}} Blackice claims to be protecting the region's "forgotten truth" — the belief that the Empire's legitimacy rests on selective memory, and that Iceverf should therefore never be properly governed. {{Src|heralds-b#397}}

== In play ==
The party has tracked thugs to a Blackice hideout in the sewer and cellar network beneath the city. {{Src|heralds-b#366}} The [[Antler Knights]] patrol and train across Iceverf's glacial landscape. {{Src|last-winter#54|last-winter#63|last-winter#65}} The Winter Elves are pressing a multi-front campaign to bring Iceverf down, opposed by the [[Spring Elves]], the [[Frostwood Rangers]], the Antler Knights, and Velfald troops. {{Src|heralds-b#187}} The party has also reached the county by way of Snakepass and a sealed secret passage. {{Src|heralds-b#116}} Ekrem has placed a bandit captain's home village near Iceverf, {{Src|last-winter#268}} and the region is also said to hold a grimoire hidden inside a lost library, alongside a presence of both Blackice and the [[Tincrabs]]. {{Src|last-winter#376|last-winter#382}}

== Beneath the city ==
{{Spoiler|GM:Iceverf}}

== Related pages ==
* [[Blackice]] — the secret society that hollows out Iceverf from beneath its streets.
* [[House Frostweave]] — the ruling house of the county.
* [[Astrid Frostweave]] — Iceverf's current countess.
* [[Velfald Regency|Velfald]] — the regency Iceverf belongs to.
* [[Antler Knights]] — the knightly order native to Iceverf.
* [[Old Iceverf]] — the ruined earlier city said to lie beneath the streets.
* [[Graymond]] — a landmark of the county, nearest Blackice's hidden den.
* [[Winter Elves]] — the invading force pressing on Iceverf's border.

== Unconfirmed ideas ==
''The source conversations contain proposals for Iceverf that the campaign owner never confirmed. They are collected on [[:Idea:Iceverf|Idea:Iceverf]] so they cannot be mistaken for canon.''

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